“patricia ingham”

The extraordinary creativity of the Bronte sisters, who between them wrote some of the most enduring fiction in the English language, continues to fascinate and intrigue modern readers. The tragedy of their early deaths adds poignancy to their novels, and in the popular imagination they have become ... More

"The Language of Gender and Class" challenges widely-held assumptions about the study of the Victorian novel. The author analyzes language as the framework for the concepts of gender and the formations of social class, specifically, how stereotypes of gender and class encode cultural myths that rein... More

Charles Dickens was the most famous of many travelers of his time who journeyed to America, curious about the revolutionary new civilization that had captured the English imagination. His frank, often humorous descriptions in his 1842 account cover everything from his uncomfortable sea voyage to an ... More

Containing the 1892 serial version as well as the version that appeared in book form in 1897, this volume makes available one of Thomas Hardy's lesser-known works. At the center of the story is a sculptor obsessed with the ideal woman, who falls in love with three women in the same family, each of a... More

Hardy himself said that The Woodlanders was about 'the immortal puzzle- given the man and woman, how to find a basis for their sexual relation'. Set in his familiar Dorset landscape, it tells the tale of two women who love the same man. Grace Melbury is elegant, Marty South homely, and in the contr... More

The distinguished combination of manic comedy, bitter satire and fierce melodrama separates this novel from its author's other works. Published in 1844, after Dickens had returned from America, the action moves between Britain and the United States in ways which highlight the failings of both socie... More